First person – Claudia L. Charles-Niño

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Claudia L. Charles-Niño is first author on ‘ Reduced growth and biofilm formation at high temperatures contribute to Cryptococcus deneoformans dermatotropism’, published in DMM. Claudia is a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Dr Luis R. Martinez at University of Florida College of Dentistry, Gainesville, FL, USA, investigating medical mycology, pathogenesis and immunology, focusing on understanding the molecular interactions between pathogens and host.